"History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson (1904)
JAMES A. OAKES, one of the honored pioneers and influential citizens of Moody county, was born in Pennsylvania, and received his rudimentary education in his native place. He was about eleven years of age at the time of his parents' removal to Illinois, where he continued his scholastic training in the common schools, in the meanwhile assisting in the reclamation and cultivation of the pioneer homestead. At the age of seventeen he signalized his loyalty by tendering his services in defense of the Union, enlisting as a private in the Ninety-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front, and he continued in active service for a period of two years. After the close of the war Mr. Oakes returned to Illinois, and there engaged in the work of the painters' trade, to which he continued to devote his attention at irregular intervals. Subsequently he came to what is now the state of South Dakota and entered claim to government land in Moody county, and in the spring of the following year he brought his family here and located on the new farm. To this original claim he has added until he now has a fine ranch, while he also owns and operates a farm in the adjoining county of McPherson, his substantial and attractive residence being located on the homestead claim which he secured when he first came to the state. He carries on diversified farming and raises live stock of excellent type, while he devotes no little attention to dairying. He also owns an interest in a lumber yard and a grain elevator. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the Republican party, while fraternally he is identified with the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mr. Oakes wedded Miss Malinda S. Saterlee, and they became the parents of four children. Mrs. Oakes was summoned into eternal rest and the subject wedded Miss Hannah S. Johnson, who was born in Iowa. Of the second union have been born two children.
JAMES A. OAKES, one of the honored pioneers and influential citizens of Moody county, was born in Pennsylvania, and received his rudimentary education in his native place. He was about eleven years of age at the time of his parents' removal to Illinois, where he continued his scholastic training in the common schools, in the meanwhile assisting in the reclamation and cultivation of the pioneer homestead. At the age of seventeen he signalized his loyalty by tendering his services in defense of the Union, enlisting as a private in the Ninety-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front, and he continued in active service for a period of two years. After the close of the war Mr. Oakes returned to Illinois, and there engaged in the work of the painters' trade, to which he continued to devote his attention at irregular intervals. Subsequently he came to what is now the state of South Dakota and entered claim to government land in Moody county, and in the spring of the following year he brought his family here and located on the new farm. To this original claim he has added until he now has a fine ranch, while he also owns and operates a farm in the adjoining county of McPherson, his substantial and attractive residence being located on the homestead claim which he secured when he first came to the state. He carries on diversified farming and raises live stock of excellent type, while he devotes no little attention to dairying. He also owns an interest in a lumber yard and a grain elevator. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the Republican party, while fraternally he is identified with the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mr. Oakes wedded Miss Malinda S. Saterlee, and they became the parents of four children. Mrs. Oakes was summoned into eternal rest and the subject wedded Miss Hannah S. Johnson, who was born in Iowa. Of the second union have been born two children.
"History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson (1904)
JAMES A. OAKES, one of the honored pioneers and influential citizens of Moody county, was born in Pennsylvania, and received his rudimentary education in his native place. He was about eleven years of age at the time of his parents' removal to Illinois, where he continued his scholastic training in the common schools, in the meanwhile assisting in the reclamation and cultivation of the pioneer homestead. At the age of seventeen he signalized his loyalty by tendering his services in defense of the Union, enlisting as a private in the Ninety-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front, and he continued in active service for a period of two years. After the close of the war Mr. Oakes returned to Illinois, and there engaged in the work of the painters' trade, to which he continued to devote his attention at irregular intervals. Subsequently he came to what is now the state of South Dakota and entered claim to government land in Moody county, and in the spring of the following year he brought his family here and located on the new farm. To this original claim he has added until he now has a fine ranch, while he also owns and operates a farm in the adjoining county of McPherson, his substantial and attractive residence being located on the homestead claim which he secured when he first came to the state. He carries on diversified farming and raises live stock of excellent type, while he devotes no little attention to dairying. He also owns an interest in a lumber yard and a grain elevator. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the Republican party, while fraternally he is identified with the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mr. Oakes wedded Miss Malinda S. Saterlee, and they became the parents of four children. Mrs. Oakes was summoned into eternal rest and the subject wedded Miss Hannah S. Johnson, who was born in Iowa. Of the second union have been born two children.
JAMES A. OAKES, one of the honored pioneers and influential citizens of Moody county, was born in Pennsylvania, and received his rudimentary education in his native place. He was about eleven years of age at the time of his parents' removal to Illinois, where he continued his scholastic training in the common schools, in the meanwhile assisting in the reclamation and cultivation of the pioneer homestead. At the age of seventeen he signalized his loyalty by tendering his services in defense of the Union, enlisting as a private in the Ninety-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front, and he continued in active service for a period of two years. After the close of the war Mr. Oakes returned to Illinois, and there engaged in the work of the painters' trade, to which he continued to devote his attention at irregular intervals. Subsequently he came to what is now the state of South Dakota and entered claim to government land in Moody county, and in the spring of the following year he brought his family here and located on the new farm. To this original claim he has added until he now has a fine ranch, while he also owns and operates a farm in the adjoining county of McPherson, his substantial and attractive residence being located on the homestead claim which he secured when he first came to the state. He carries on diversified farming and raises live stock of excellent type, while he devotes no little attention to dairying. He also owns an interest in a lumber yard and a grain elevator. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the Republican party, while fraternally he is identified with the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mr. Oakes wedded Miss Malinda S. Saterlee, and they became the parents of four children. Mrs. Oakes was summoned into eternal rest and the subject wedded Miss Hannah S. Johnson, who was born in Iowa. Of the second union have been born two children.
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